Rejecting the Gujarat government's plea, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that the final report of the Justice HS Bedi Committee on 24 alleged fake encounter cases from 2002 to 2006 in the state be given to parties of the petition. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it would deal later on whether to accept or reject the final report of the Justice Bedi committee on encounter cases. Earlier, the apex court asked the former apex court judge if he had shared his final report with other members of the panel. The court was earlier informed that the apex court-appointed monitoring committee supervised the probe of the Special Task Force (STF) into the encounter killings and submitted its final report to the registry. Justice Bedi was appointed chairperson of the already functioning monitoring committee set up by the state government on March 2, 2012.

Source: dna January 09, 2019 07:18 UTC